An essay in defence of the female sex. : In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady. (1696)
Author: Astell, Mary, 1668-1731; Drake, Judith, fl. 1696-1707; Roper, A. prt; Wilkinson, E. prt; Clavel, R. prt
Subject: Women; Women; Women's rights; 1696
Publisher: London, : Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson... and R. Clavel...
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 39999059851566
Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library
Book contributor: Boston Public Library
Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Scanfactors: 5
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Table of contents: [4] p. at end
Includes commendatory verses by James Drake
Authorship in doubt. Attributed to both Mary Astell and Judith Drake. cf. F. M. Smith. Mary Astell; S. Halkett and J. Laing. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature
Errata: p.[24] first count
Page 137 misnumbered 177
Wing
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